Whether you are a dedicated tropical fish hobbyist, researcher, dealer, or wildlife agent, Dr. Axelrod's Atlas of Freshwater Aquarium Fishes offers a reliable zoogeographical method of listing species for a unique and simplified approach to fish identification.

This 3rd edition, a truly beautiful and immensely colorful book, satisfies the long-existing need for a comprehensive identification guide to marine fishes. This book shows in full color not only the popular aquarium fishes but also the oddballs and weirdos, the large seaquarium-type fishes, both warmwater and coldwater fishes, as well as both foreign and domestic fishes. In short, this book has it all and has it in a format that will provide maximum utility to its reader. The fishes are grouped family by family in phylogenetic order–sharks and rays first, puffers and boxfishes last.The photos were taken predominantly by world-class fish photographers.

This is THE resource book for marine fish identification, from the same authors of Dr. Axelrod's Freshwater Atlas. It contains over 4600 full color photos portraying absolutely all of the more popular species, plus a huge amount of really rare, exotic and wierd ones. Each photo is accompanied by the species' characteristics such as scientific name, family, size, optimal aquarium conditions and care info. If you can afford this book, it's definitely a must have. I can't imagine a serious saltwater Fish Shop whose owner doesn't have a copy of this book at hand.

This book is a beautiful and immensely colorful work that satisfies the long-existing need for a comprehensive identification guide to marine fishes. It shows not only the popular aquarium fishes but also the oddballs and weirdos, the large public aquarium type fishes, warmwater and coldwater fishes, and foreign and domestic fishes. Now in its third edition, with over 4000 full-color photos. Indexed by both common and scientific names.

This reference book, with details of 700 fish species, 70 plants, and over 40 invertebrates, offers aquarists both a comprehensive survey of their hobby and an analysis of their personal requirements, taking into account the special needs of individual fish species.

This important and informative new book outlines and discusses details of the basic principles and methods that are central to any study of fish condition, from a fish ecology and fisheries biology perspective.